Jobs

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When you got a career, there ain't enough time in the day. You look at your watch, time just flies, like God damn, whoa, it's 5:35! Damn, I gotta come in early tomorrow and work on my project. Cause there ain't enough time when you got a career. When you got a job, there's too much time. That's right, you look at your watch like, ah shit. 9:08.

Chris Rock

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Topic

Job vs. career Shitty jobs Alienating work Passage of time Jobs

Speaker

Chris Rock

Source

Kill the Messenger

Medium

Standup comedy

Genre

Comedy

Language

English

Time

2009 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Rock, Chris. Chris Rock: Kill the Messenger. HBO, 27 Sept. 2008.

Look at it this way, you know. A man takes a job, you know? And that job—I mean, like that—that becomes what he is. You know, like—you do a thing and that's what you are. Like I've been a cabbie for seventeen years. Ten years at night. I still don't own my own cab. You know why? Because I don't want to. That must be what I want. To be on the night shift drivin' somebody else's cab. You understand? I mean, you become—you get a job, you become the job. One guy lives in Brooklyn. One guy lives in Sutton Place. You got a lawyer. Another guy's a doctor. Another guy dies. Another guy gets well. You know, people are born. I envy you. Go on, get laid, get drunk. Do anything. You got no choice, anyway. I mean, we're all fucked. More or less, ya know.

Taxi Driver

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Topic

Jobs Meaninglessness

Speaker

Wizard

Actor

Peter Boyle

Source

Taxi Driver

Medium

Film

Genre

Neo-noir Crime (film) Crime

Language

English

Time

1976 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Taxi Driver. Directed by Martin Scorsese, Bill/Phillips Productions/Italo/Judeo Productions, 1976.

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

Thomas Jefferson

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Topic

Jobs Work

Author

Thomas Jefferson

Source

Letters of Thomas Jefferson

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1792 1790s 18th century

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Citation

Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to Peter Carr. 22 June 1792.

If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.

Albert Einstein

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Topic

Vocation Jobs

Speaker

Albert Einstein

Source

The Reporter

Medium

Newspaper

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1954 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Einstein, Albert. "On Intellectual Freedom, 18 November 1954." Einstein on Politics, edited by David E. Rowe and Robert Schulmann. Princeton University Press, 2007, ch. 10. Originally from Letter to the editor published in The Reporter, 18 Nov. 1954.